My latest in PJ Media:
Trump’s “Muslim Ban” was so notorious that Old Joe Biden’s handlers directed him to repeal it by executive order on the first day of his presidency. And that was that, right? Wrong. House Democrats have now moved to make sure this manifestation of racism, white supremacy, and all that is evil never recurs.
The “Muslim Ban” was one of the most offensive aspects of the Trump administration, as far as leftists and Hamas-linked Islamic advocacy groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) were concerned, as it was supposedly a racist, “Islamophobic” endeavor to keep Muslims out of the United States. Hijabbed “feminist” Linda Sarsour, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) and their ilk railed against it repeatedly, and the Democrats mounted numerous and ultimately unsuccessful court challenges against it. So it’s understandable that the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives has now acted to bar this particular door forever.
Al Jazeera, no doubt rubbing its hands in glee, reported Wednesday that “the US House of Representatives has passed a bill that would limit the ability of any United States president to impose a travel ban on the basis of religion, a move that was welcomed by civil rights advocates as ‘a major step forward.’”
The late Osama bin Laden’s favorite news outlet explained that “the legislation, known informally as the NO BAN Act, comes in response to former President Donald Trump’s controversial ‘Muslim ban’ that barred travel to the US from several Muslim-majority countries. The bill, which must also pass in the US Senate to become law, was approved by a 218-208 vote in the House on Wednesday.”
Madihha Ahussain, a lawyer for Muslim Advocates, which has sued Facebook to force it to remove all material critical of Islam, stated: “The Muslim ban tore families apart, put lives on hold for years and labeled Muslims, Africans and other targeted people as threatening outsiders. We must ensure that no president can enact discriminatory bans like this ever again and with the passage of the NO BAN Act in the House, we are taking a major step forward to ensuring that they won’t.”
There is more. Read the rest here.
gravenimage says
House Votes to Ban ‘Muslim Ban,’ Even Though There Never Was One in the First Place
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This was actually a partial ban against importing people from nations that are state-sponsors of terrorism.
Will any of these tools say how this invasion from state sponsirs of terror is actually *a good thing*? I doubt they will even bother.
Infidel says
Partly true, but note that in that ban were included countries whose citizens do not have a history of hatred of Americans. People like Venezuelans or North Koreans
The problem I had w/ that ban, the way it ultimately ended, was that it included countries like Burma, w/ whom we have no issues, either w/ their government nor w/ their people. While at the same time, it excluded countries like Pakistan, Turkey, Bangladesh, whose people do hate us, and in 2 cases, whose governments are vassals of China and hostile to us as well
gravenimage says
Infidel, the North Korean and Venezuelan people may not be anti-American, but their governments certainly are.
I agree with the rest of your post–Burma never should have been included here, and many Jihad terrorist states were excluded.
I had hoped that it could have been expanded and fine tuned in time.
But as imperfect as this ban was, it was at least an attempt to protect Americans from terrorism. Now Biden has stripped these protections.
Infidel says
Graven, another thing – the partially muslim countries that were there on the last list – Chad, Eritrea, Tanzania and Kyrgyzstan – all of them are far less malignant than the ones we were discussing – Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, et al. And they all have far more functional governments than at least Pakistan and Bangladesh. Which makes the list even more curious
gravenimage says
Infidel, I have acknowleged that this ban was far from perfect–still better than the free-for-all under Biden.
mortimer says
It was a TERRORISM BAN.
Bribed-man is opening the doors for terrorists. Another 9-11 will be the result.
Kuffar. says
The Koran at 2:218 says what President Trump was aiming at, the sneaky method of attack, using the veil of migration to populate, cause trouble and eventually take over non mozlim nations. The examples in 2021 are France and England.
gravenimage says
True, Kuffar. I doubt that President Trump was actually familiar with this specific verse, but he clearly saw the harm that invading Muslims can cause.
John says
Trumps ban was just a finger in the dike. Islam should be treated like Naziism or communism in the 1930s 40s and 50s. It is a political system whose long term goal is to destroy our democracy. When they have the numbers and the votes they’ll do it.
Immigration applications should include questions which will force Muslims to denounce major tenants of Islam. Do you believe in sharia law? Do you believe a man can have four wives? Do you believe you can divorce your wife by saying I divorce you three times.? Do you believe in Muslim marriages without a US marriage license? Do you believe insulting Islam or the prophet Muhammad should be punishable by death? And go down all the list of things that are contrary to our laws. If they denounce these tenets in writing and come in the country and are found practicing them they lied on their original paperwork and are deported.
Of course that does not solve the problem of their offspring. The offspring can be raised as a little Jihadis if they go to the mosque and follow the teachings of the Koran.
gravenimage says
Actually, both Fascism and Communism got quite a foothold in the US in the 1930s. This is where we are with Islam now.
PRCS says
“Islam should be treated like Naziism or communism in the 1930s 40s and 50s. It is a political system whose long term goal is to destroy our democracy.”
Islam is not a political system. It is a theocracy, the “religious” aspect of that particular system of governance will always prevent it from being treated as anything but a religion.
The argument will continue to be–despite the unvarnished truth to the contrary–that Muslims MUST comply with the laws of the lands in which they live: until they can get those laws changed to their benefit.
mortimer says
PRCS cannot support his claim that Islam ‘is not a political system’. All Muslims understand Islam as a political system. Islam is a ‘DEEN’, a system of ‘governance’.
The system of governance rules over Muslims and kafirs as well. It is thus, very much a political system. And Sharia law manuals are also part of the constitution of Islamic countries. Sharia law manuals contain many political rulings and ‘legislation’.
PRCS cannot provide any evidence for the claim, since Islam clearly self-declares as a political system, as a caliphate and as a future world empire.
mortimer says
Further point re PRCS: Blanket statements are risky when applied to Islam, because Islam is often a chameleon. There is always more than one opinion in Islam, because it is dualistic. Some Muslims do accept the ‘manmade’ laws of the kafirs as being valid and some do not. Most of them haven’t a clue, but dislike the kafirs anyway, longing for the caliphate to come and the Islamic millennium to begin.
One must be very nuanced in commenting on Islam, because it tolerates differences of opinion, but only up to a point and only at certain times. Sometimes, these differences cause wars between Shi’ites, Alawites and Sunnites.
Islam flip-flops often according to necessity. As a political system , Islam is highly ‘OPPORTUNISTIC’.
Naildriver says
Very dark days are ahead. Demographics and the importation of immigrants, particularly those likely to be hostile to white Americans, not just anti-Republicans, will persist with a vengeance; as the traitors in power consolidate their win.
It cannot be anything but a blood bath now, and the treasonous Dems will likely come out on top of that because their propaganda, control and success in dumbing down public education, allies with fb and Twitter control of FBI, has divided conservative America: divided the races, divided the sexes, the military, police and, religions — All such is in unity with the Democrats.
Before it’s all over, any one who has family that came over on the Mayflower will be put in that ‘evil white man’ corral — this white supremacist slogan from the Islamic aligned hordes will not cease.
You saw the victorius smug Pelosi after the capital riot put down, with 30,000 ? national guard after the confused mob went home, reframe the country and designate all opponents insurgents. Her only worry was the possibility Trump might do something covert with the nukes, or the unforeseen acts of individuals — otherwise she saw smooth sailing. But the stakes are too high for the losers to just suck it up — so now, ‘Islam’ remains on a back burner — but, depend on an ugly, bloody mess as they ensconce themselves.
Naildriver says
Meant , ‘as Muslims ensconce themselves’.
And, as Trump said; and to which he was impeached yet again — ‘if you want your country, you’ll have to fight for it — or words to that effect. He also meant it that no violence or mob action should happen with these lawful moves to restore our republic.
We are way past normal channels of bi-partisan cooperation and ‘democratic’ voting sanity. Mob actions resulting in corrupt, insane rule, generated by a leftist corporate propaganda machine has replaced the Republic, and it is time for a militia, in obedience to the Constitution, to reclaim the country lawfully — and, they had better be prepared, with a sound plan, and get busy with it before traitors add 4 more justices to the SCOTUS… before the FBI and CIA become hopelessly swamped with the likes of Obama appointees who can swiftly put down any such corrective attempts.
curious george says
The bottom line… with the left the issue is never the issue, it’s the narrative that matters.
Also, when the Demoncrats control all 3 branches of the government… usually, very bad things happen to the USA.
Batten down the hatches, the worst is yet to come.
Any doubts? Ask Roger Stone and Rudy Giuliani.
James Lincoln says
We should not admit one more muslim into the USA. Period.
I remember President Trump’s original “ban all muslims” speech – when he was running for office. It sounded a little draconian to me at the time, but now I think that he was essentially correct. Probably better something like “ban all Muslims – with very rare, very limited, highly monitored exceptions for very short periods of time”.
Also, the US should deport as many muslims as legally possible – and ban sharia law at the federal level as well as in all 50 individual states.
Won’t happen with phony fraudulent Biden/Harris…
gravenimage says
+1
Infidel says
James, remember that his original ‘muslim ban’ speech was made in the aftermath of the San Bernardino massacre. None of the other candidates on either side was willing to say a thing about it, but he went ahead and touched that third rail, and the entire GOP establishment was up in arms against him. Despite polling that showed that 70% of the entire country – Republican AND Democrat – agreed w/ him!
That was the day I switched my support from Carson to Trump
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
The late (murdered) Phil Haney, formally a retired DHS frontline officer and intelligence expert, had been tracking people affiliated with the Islamic Deobandi movement, such as the San Bernardino jihadists Sayed Farook and Tashfeen Malik.
His work at DHS was shut down by the Obama administration, prior to the San Bernardino terrorist attack – which likely would have been stopped.
Tragic beyond tragic – and also criminal…
Clifford Fodor says
The Muslims are quietly taking over America–their number target. Soon, they will violently take it over.
Clifford Fodor says
Correction: “their number one target.”
Brenrod says
I am confused: did they repeal trumps actual law or did they enact a separate law which has no effect on the trump law because trumps law was not a Muslim ban?
Infidel says
They’re taking off the ban that existed on countries like Somalia, Yemen, Iran, Syria and others, so that now, no country’s citizens are subjected to any vetting for jihadist ties, as that would be ‘islamophobic’! So Houthis from Yemen, ISIS people from Syria, Boko Haram from Nigeria, al Shabab from Somalia all can send their members to the US to do whatever they like
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
Meanwhile, so-called ‘fact-checkers’ didn’t discover that many of these same terrorist countries are banned by a number of Muslim-majority countries as well.
What these Muslims countries are banning is obviously NOT ‘Islam’, but terrorism.